BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective

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In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Sampling, loops, and the earliest synthesizers-long before audiences knew what they were-made up the groundbreaking scores for news programs, auto maintenance shows, and children's programming. They also produced the Doctor Who theme, one of the first electronic music masterpieces. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and others borrowed from them. A generation of musicians raised on BBC programming-Aphex Twin, Portishead, and Prodigy among them-took these once-alien sounds and carried on the Workshop's legacy. Ignored for decades by music historians, the Workshop is now recognized as one of the most influential forebears of electronica, psychedelia, ambient music, and synth-pop.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
ISBN
9781501389160
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Praise for the Series
  5. Title Page
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: An Improbable Stew
  8. 1 Before the Workshop: Beeps, Bloops, and a Battle for the Nation’s Identity
  9. 2 “Vive Le Workshop!”
  10. 3 “Time Beat” and the Soul of a Machine
  11. 4 Way Out and Catchy! Doctor Who, and a New Era for the Workshop
  12. 5 Fragile Ribbons of Iron: A Chapter about Tape
  13. 6 Around the Office
  14. 7 The Art of Making Something from Nothing
  15. 8 Goons, Singing Dogs, and Chirping Percolators
  16. 9 The World as Their Instrument
  17. 10 The Impact of the Radiophonic Workshop
  18. 11 Team Tape versus Team Synth
  19. 12 The End, and a New Appreciation
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. Also Available in the Series
  23. Copyright Page